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Word: bacchanale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gin & Company. The locale of these eight finely wrought stories is Shady Hill, which could pass for many a commuting community in New York or Connecticut. The lawns and hedges are faultless, but there are cracks in the picture-window lives. In 0 Youth and Beauty!, a middle-aging onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crack in the Picture Window | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

That molish little man who had previously peered out from a scotch-bottle and tortoise shell opaque to murmur, "Bacchanal, simply bacchanal," was asleep in a lump on the floor, draped in the silk standard of the Dominican Republic.

Author: By Alexander Kerensky, | Title: Lubricated Camaraderie | 5/1/1958 | See Source »

A climax of sorts builds when Mrs. Halloran, feeling pretty good on the day before the scheduled holocaust, puts on a tiara ("My crown!") and throws a farewell bacchanal all over the lawn for the poor villagers. Fools, they don't know any better and go ahead and have a...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Shirley Jackson Presides Over the End of the World | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Last week Sihanouk (who has served five times as Premier, rules the country whether in office or out) was back from a long vacation in France, 20 pounds lighter and with some brisk new ideas. Calling his Sangkum Party to a convention in Pnompenh, he listened patiently while Sangkum Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Late Wisdom | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Kroll frankly admits that "the nude studies might have shocked the ladies if they had been alive" (only one of them is: handsome, octogenarian Mrs. De Courcy Wright Thorn of Baltimore), but he points out, "That way I could capture the movement of the body better, the fall of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Barrister & the Beauties | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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